Sentence examples for failures in math from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mills said that one reason for the large number of failures in math in New York City was that students were not being adequately prepared in the middle grades, with students performing poorly on the new statewide eighth grade math test.

It will introduce elements of privatization to deal with persistent failures in reading and math skills among the city's 214,000 students.

He says provisions in the draft No Child Left Behind reauthorization bill would let schools hide their failures in reading and math by granting credit for students' success in other subjects.

Math-induced AYP-failures showed strong improvements in math, while reading-induced AYP-failures showed marked improvements in reading.

The results were dramatic: the failure rate in English dropped from 52 percent to 19 percent; in math, it dropped from 44 percent to 13 percent; in science, from 41 percent to 19 percent; and in social studies, from 28 percent to 9 percent.

We also found that, for about one in six children, failure in reading or math is attributable to low-level lead toxicity.

Among all children, a 5 μg/dL increase in B-Pb within a B-Pb range of 2 – 9 μg/dL resulted in a 32% increase in the risk of failure in reading and math.

Some critics warn that one provision might allow schools to mask failures in bedrock subjects like reading and math by giving them credit for student performance in other subjects or on so-called alternate indicators.

The market for credit-default swaps has been at the center of the recent Wall Street banking failures and rescues, and these instruments embody the kinds of risks not easily captured in math formulas.

Instead of a spirited debate on how we teach math and what should be taught in math classes, we instead debate about who is to blame for the failure of our schools to deliver the results we all seek.

Research on productive failure has examined the dimensions which are most beneficial for students' learning of well-defined canonical problems in math and science.